The challenge
Email is where small teams quietly lose hours every day. Fully automating replies is risky - a wrong message sent on your behalf is expensive - but doing it all manually does not scale across several business inboxes. The honest middle ground, AI that drafts and a human who approves, is surprisingly rare.
The brief was a control plane for email: intelligent enough to draft and triage, safe enough to trust, and open enough that an AI agent could drive it rather than a person clicking through a UI.
What we built
We built AutoEmail on Next.js and Convex through our custom SaaS development practice, with the AI layer scoped by our AI integration consulting team. Inboxes sync over IMAP/SMTP, an LLM-routing layer (via OpenRouter) drafts replies and scores messages, and a human-in-the-loop approval step sits between the draft and the send.
Crucially, the same capabilities are exposed as a REST API, so AutoEmail is not just a dashboard but a service an automated workflow or agent can call. Authentication runs through Clerk and the dashboard is built as a fast, installable PWA.
The result
AutoEmail shipped with multi-inbox sync, AI drafting and spam scoring, a human approval queue and an agent-ready API - a working command centre for business email rather than another rules engine.
The live product and its API surface are at AutoEmail.
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Scope
Design, engineering and launch - owned end to end by AETHER Digital.